Tadg Óg Ó hUiginn (born c.1370, died 1448) was an
Irish
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poet.
Life and background
Ó hUiginn was a member of a well-known Irish family of
bards
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, based in
Connacht
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. His father,
Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn
Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn was an Irish poet.
Ó hUiginn was a member of a highly regarded Connacht O'Higgins family of bards. His surviving poems include:
* ''Gach éan mar a adhbha''
* ''Slán fat fholcadh''
See also
* O'Higgins family
* Tadg Ó ...
, died in 1391, while all that is known of his mother is her first name,
Áine
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.
He had an elder brother,
Fearghal Ruadh Ó hUiginn, who succeeded his father as head of the family and died c.1400. The historian of Medieval Gaelic Ireland, Marc Caball, believes him to have been a great-grandson of Tadhg Ó hUiginn, a celebrated poet who died in 1315.
Further personal details are few, but he did marry and have issue. His descendants included
Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn
Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn, also Maol Muire Ó Huiginn (Anglicised: Miler O'Higgin; died 1590 at Antwerp), was an Irish Catholic clergyman. A Franciscan, he was appointed Archbishop of Tuam by the Holy See on 24 March 1586, and died in office.
Ó ...
who became an
Archbishop of Tuam
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in 1586,
and the poet
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn (c. 1550 – c.1591) was an Irish poet.
Background
A well-known late-Gaelic era poet, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn was a member of a family of professional poets from north Connacht. His mother's name is unknown. His father was Mat ...
(died c.1591).
The
Irish annals
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state that he kept a school for training in
Irish bardic poetry
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with lodgings for scholars and pilgrims, and died at Kilconla ( mga, Cill Chonnla; ga, Cill Chluaine) in the
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of
Dunmore, County Galway
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The town belongs to an ancient tuath called Conmhaícne Dúna-Móir and Cenél Dubáin, ...
, in 1448. He was buried in the
priory
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of
Strade
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Straid ...
, now in
County Mayo
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.
His school at Kilconla was still functioning in 1574, overseen by his descendant,
Domhnall Ó hUiginn
Domhnall Ó hÚigínn ( fl. 1574) was an Irish poet and teacher.
Domhnall was a member of the same clan as Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn (1550–1591) and the scribe of ''Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe'' (fl. 1680).
This branch of the Uí hÚigínn ran ...
.
Poetic works
Ó hUiginn enjoyed a great professional reputation within his own lifetime, and was regarded as a master poet. His work enjoyed a wide range of appreciation, which apparent from the long list of prominent Gaelic-Irish and Anglo-Irish lords who were subjects of his work:
*
O'Donnell
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Or ...
of
Tyrconnell
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*
O'Neill
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of
Tyrone
*
Butler
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of
Ormond
*
Burke
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of
Clanricarde
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* Mac William
Bourke of
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* O'Kelly of
Ui Maine
*
O'Carroll
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of
Éile
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(Anglicised as Ely)
*
MacDonnell of
Islay
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*
MacDermot
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of
Moylurg
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*
Maguire
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of
Fermanagh
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O'Conor Sligo
*
O'Conor Kerry
Upon the death of his brother in 1400, Tadg Óg composed a poem of lament for Fearghal Ruadh. Written in or around 1400, when Tadg Óg was in his early thirties, it is entitled (also known by the initial line of stanza 14, ).
[Bergin, Osborn, 'Unpublished Irish poems XXV — On the breaking up of a school', in ''Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review'', Vol. 13 (1924), pp. 85–90]
Marc Caball draws attention to Ó hUiginn's success in "composing works of affective power and elegance ... nothwithstanding the somewhat formulaic configuration of the bardic form."
Devotional
Christian poetry
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by Ó hUiginn's formed part of the
Yellow Book of Lecan
The Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL; Irish: ''Leabhar Buidhe Leacáin''), or TCD MS 1318 (''olim'' H 2.16), is a late medieval Irish manuscript.
It contains much of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, besides other material. It is held in the Library ...
. Extracts of his verse were cited as models of poetic excellence in bardic school and tutorial tracts.
Selected works
* ''A-táid trí comhruig im chionn''
* ''Cia do-ghéabhainn go Gráinne''
* ''Dá bhrághaid uaim i nInis''
* ''Foillsigh do mhíorbhuile, a Mhuire''
See also
*
Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hUiccinn
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/ Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; angli ...
, died 1490
*
Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn
*
Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hUiginn
Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hÚigínn () was an Irish bardic poet.
Background
Ó hÚigínn was a member of a well-known Irish family of bards or poets, based in Connacht. His surviving works include:
* '' Foraire Uladh ar Aodh''
* ''Do ...
*
Filí
The filí (singular: file) were members of an elite class of Irish poetry, poets in Ireland and Scottish Poetry, Scotland, up until the English Renaissance, Renaissance.
Etymology
The word "file" is thought to derive from the Proto-Celtic '' ...
, the hereditary elite bardic poets of Gaelic Ireland
*
Irish bardic poetry
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Medieval Irish poets
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15th-century Irish poets
1448 deaths
Irish male poets
Irish-language writers